“A reckoning is at hand, and nowhere is that clearer than in Germany. Even as the country sets records nearly every month for renewable power production, the changes have devastated its utility companies, whose profits from power generation have collapsed.”

Economics will drive the change. What, the wind is free? The sun is free? OK so I build with wind turbines and solar panels rather than coal or gas fired turbines with the same amount of investment? You mean my fuel is really, really free? Where do I sign?

“Human Rights” have long been an interesting concept, but has anyone ever really precisely defined or even listed them, one-by-one, in a globally acceptable/accepted list? How do human rights differ from, say, corporate rights? Or animal rights? Or plant rights? Or, for that matter, from earth rights? How, exactly, does one precisely distinguish a ‘right’ from a ‘wrong’?

Interesting that there are, in that list, six “Freedom from” categories along with two that begin “Freedom of” — the first of which is “Belief and Religion”, followed by “Opinion and Information.” Makes me wonder why there is no freedom FROM such things as belief, religion, opinion, and information, each and all of which are susceptible to an imposed bias?

I live in a state in which some of the poorest regions believe that the end of coal will be the end of them. Yet look how coal has served them, after 150 years of coal, they are still the poorest region of the state and now some of their mountains and streams are gone.

“This is all because, I mean, count the number of times he uses the word I in any speech, and compare that to any other president. Remember when he announced the killing of bin Laden? That speech I believe had 29 references to I – on my command, I ordered, as commander-in-chief, I was then told, I this. You’d think he’d pulled the trigger out there in Abbottabad. You know, this is a guy, you look at every one of his speeches, even the way he introduces high officials – I’d like to introduce my secretary of State. He once referred to ‘my intelligence community’. And in one speech, I no longer remember it, ‘my military’. For God’s sake, he talks like the emperor, Napoleon,” – Charles Krauthammer, psycho-analyzing the president.

‘A new Satanic religious group that debuted in Detroit this month already has encountered outspoken opposition: other Satanists.

The Rev. Tom Erik Raspotnik, 49, of Oxford decries the Satanic Temple’s atheism and progressive ideals. He said his Temples of Satan honors the deity of Satan, and he and others with him are pro-life and believe in animal sacrifices.’